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Poster for Gracious Curves

1997 · ★ 5.5 (8)

A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.

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Poster for Cold Sassy Tree

1989 · ★ 6.5 (4)

In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.

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Poster for Barre

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Charlotte Dauphin explores the semiotics of dance and sculpture through an emotional confrontation performed by Marie-Agnès Gillot

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Poster for O Pequeno Exército Louco

1984 · ★ 5.0 (1)

The Nicaraguan Revolution and the US presence in the country since the 1930s, highlighting the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1978–79.

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Poster for Murnau, Borzage and Fox

2008 · ★ 7.0 (7)

Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.

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Poster for 7Hz

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anna arrives in a remote area on the city border. A public telephone booth stands there as the last totem on earth. This is the official city limit. Anna plans to escape. But when the well-trained phone operator at the end of the line grows suspicious of her, Anna realises that the clock is ticking at her expense.

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Poster for The Missed Date

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Glamorous Mei builds her entire life around husband Philip, an advertising executive and faithless twerp. She suspects him of fooling around when he pleads working late and having to entertain important clients, and talks this over with Ling, who has a 'modern' relationship with lawyer Ben. Mei is flattered by the attention of Ling's suave cousin Peter, but resists his advances, until confronted by seeing Philip with a lecherous female client. Will Mei retaliate in kind?

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Poster for The Bullfinch

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Once a boy in a pet store saw a red-breasted bullfinch and asked his mother to buy him this bird. But the mother refused to buy, citing the boy's bad behavior and the coat he had ruined. He was very upset, but then, after thinking a little, he decided to correct his behavior and stopped fighting. Mom was pleasantly surprised by such drastic changes in her son's behavior and bought him a bullfinch.

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Poster for Pendular

2017 · ★ 5.1 (21)

The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.

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2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emmalou works as a waitress on a cruise ship filled with lonely people. She mourns the loss of her boyfriend who died in an accident the previous year. One day, a small boy disguised in a blue costume boards the ship

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Poster for Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story

2026 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Chronicles the life of the legendary Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coach.

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Poster for Legacy

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A tale of generations through poetry and pictures.

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Poster for Don't Look Deeper

2020 · ★ 6.5 (2)

In near-future California, high school senior Aisha learns a dark secret about herself. She goes from dreams of graduation and college...to suddenly running for her life.

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Poster for Peccadillo

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Peccadillo tells the story of Lorenzo. An 18- year-old boy struggling to come out to his religious family of female tailors, who work day and night sewing the dresses he only dreams to wear. Unfortunately, the dream of fitting into one of these sparkly beauties and explore his sexuality lingers in the air, as through his Family’s eyes, being gay and wearing clothes opposite to someone’s sex, is a sin.

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Poster for Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance

2022 · ★ 8.0 (2)

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë sisters, published her novel Wuthering Heights, a dark romance set in the desolation of the moors, a unique work of early Victorian literature that stunned contemporary critics.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Haunted by the traumas of her own childhood, a woman makes a powerful decision regarding her daughter.

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Poster for East of the Mountains

2021 · ★ 5.3 (40)

When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.

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Poster for Darlin

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

DARLIN follows a Honduran family in the months after their separation under the zero tolerance policy.

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Poster for Die Löwin

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After many years in Germany, the young doctor Lena returns to South Africa, the place of her childhood, for the first time. Her grandfather Jo, on whose farm she lived with her parents, is terminally ill. With the help of her partner Felix and her mother Sarah, Lena tries to persuade the headstrong old big-game hunter to seek treatment in Germany.

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Poster for Diorama

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

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